Data Center News

Fallen Trees And a Broken Backup Switch Triggered the University of Virginia Data Center Outage

Virginia

The University of Virginia experienced disruption due to the impact of fallen trees on the data center's grid line.  The facility was supposed to transition to a backup generator immediately, but the backup switch failed. UVA employees manually shifted power to the data center at 11:30 a.m. on...

Despite Data Center Closures, UK Ministry Of Defence Payroll Shift To Oracle Cloud Proceeds.

United Kingdom

In an effort to move its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud, the British Ministry of Defense has awarded Deloitte $2.5 million. The MOD intends to close its data center and migrate to Oracle Cloud, but the transition has been difficult. First reported by The Stack, t...

Science DIrect Utilizes Baxtel's Data

From the perspective of the data centre industry, Denmark has an advantageous position due to its many international submarine cable connections and proximity to several internet exchanges. Furthermore, besides being a transit land for data, Denmark is interconnected with many of its neighbour...

Acquisition Of 375 Acres In Red Oak, Texas By Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters has purchased 375 acres of vacant land in Dallas, Texas, more than tripling its land holdings in the region. According to BizJournal's 'Best Real Estate Deals' awards, the company acquired land in Red Oak, Ellis County, south of Dallas. "This new campus will likely be one o...

Vantage Data Centers Plans £250 Million Data Center Fac in London

Vantage Data Centers

With a £250 million investment, Vantage Data Centers announced the creation of a second data center campus (LHR2) in London. Vantage Data Centers previously announced the 48MW facility (LHR1) in London for £500 million. Beginning in early 2025, LHR2 will be a single data center that offers cus...

SSDs For Data Centers Are Now Being Sold by Samsung Electronics Poland

Poland

According to Samsung Electronics Poland, the company has begun selling data center SSDs in the nation. Both the PM893 solid state drive, which is based on SATA technology, and the PM9A3 SSD, which uses MVMe, are now accessible to consumers. Both TD Synnex and AB are carrying out their activiti...

Data center proposal for SDC Piperstown in Dublin, Ireland, pulled

Dublin

The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted.  SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no ...

VodafoneZiggo to connect Tilburg data center to new district heating scheme

Netherlands

VodafoneZiggo has announced a new project to supply the new Tilburg district heating scheme with residual heat from its nearby data center. The company is partnering with real estate developer SDK Vastgoed to establish the sustainable energy system in the new residential area of Smariuskade in...

Stellium Datacenters to use solar panels and battery storage at its Newcastle facility

Stellium Datacenters

In Newcastle, UK, Stellium Datacenters is planning to deploy a battery storage and solar solution at its facility to reduce its carbon footprint. The company teamed up with Total Data Centre Solutions (TDCS) for the project, which will deploy a containerized 2.3MWh battery storage solution and...

Keppel Data Centres and Woodside partner on liquid hydrogen supply

Keppel Data Center REIT

Keppel Corporation has signed an agreement with Australia's Woodside Energy, which could see it supply 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons) of liquid hydrogen a day from Woodside's portfolio of planned production facilities, to Keppel's data center in Singapore. This deal follows a series of successful ...

Data4 Reveals an Additional Spanish Campus in Madrid

DATA4 Group

European data center provider Data4 is constructing a second Spanish campus outside Madrid. The company disclosed plans for a new data center facility in San Agustn del Guadalix, a town located north of Madrid and close to the Sierra de Guadarrama, last week. The new MAD02 campus will encom...

Conapto Gets $39M Debt Finance to Construct a New Stockholm Data Center

Conapto AB

Conapto, a Nordic data center operator, has secured nearly $40 million in debt financing to expand its presence in Sweden. After securing a $38.8 million debt financing from Kommunalkredit Austria AG, the investment firm Marguerite recently announced that its Swedish data center provider Co...

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services.  For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

Google Downtime Due to Paris Global Switch Data Center Fire Caused by Water Leak

Google

The Paris data center of Global Switch caught fire, bringing down Google services in Europe. According to a post to the French Network Operators Group, the fire seems to have been started by a cooling system water pump malfunction that caused water to leak into the battery room, sparking the f...

Rai launches Edge data center network

Italy

In Italy, Rai has announced the launch of its Edge data center network, the Rai Way Edge project, to reduce latency speeds. Through the project, the company offers a platform of 18 Edge data centers covering 20 Italian regions, with a combined IT capacity of 3.4MW. This will be supplemented by...

Tech giants secure gas hook ups for 11 new data center generators in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

According to a report, nearly a dozen data centers in Dublin have secured permission to get hooked up to the Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) pipeline in the wake of grid restrictions in Ireland and de facto moratorium put in place by EirGrid. In total, eleven data centers will be connected to the g...

The circular economy in action at Meta's Gallatin data center through new mushroom project

Meta

In an effort to curb construction waste, Meta has announced a new project that is using mushrooms to help mitigate some of the 660 million tons of waste sent to landfills and incinerators each year. The giant has been working with Mycocycle, a tech company in the zero-waste market, to pilot th...

Etisalat Egypt to utilize Ericsson energy efficiency solution

etisalat and

Ericsson has announced that it has improved its remote management feature on Etisalat Egypt's network. According to the two companies, the addition of this new feature will enable Etisalat to better regulate its energy usage and bolster efficiency. Ericsson shared that the feature will help th...

Microsoft launches its first data center region in Poland

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has announced that it has opened its first data center region in Poland, which consists of three independent physical locations around Warsaw. The giant shared that this expansion is in response to the growing demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and fast and reliable access ...

Equinix Plans 30MW+ Data Facility in Slough, UK

Equinix

Equinix plans to construct a new 30MW+ data center in Slough Trading Estate, Berkshire, just outside of London. Late last year, as initially reported by the Royal Borough Observer, the corporation submitted a planning application for LD14. The Slough planning commission voted unanimously in...